what up #GregGang i noticed that ALL of the #MalabarPlum trees have at least green plums on them (some have plums of all stages of ripeness) so i’ve decided to make some pickles! imma go ahead and let you know i hate measuring so i didn’t do any of it. pls don’t expect measurements from me ever EVER. i took the long way home from work and got off the bus a couple stops early to gather all the unripe fruits i could. i ended up doing three jars. the two smaller ones are comprised of ONLY unripe malabar plums, the large jar has malabar plums of all ripenesses AND some unripe (and one ripe lol) #CocoPlum fruits! in addition, i found a few barely-ripe #SurinamCherry fruits. all of the fruit was #foraged outside, de-stemmed and washed under cool water. i patted them dry and scored each one with a paring knife before packing them into the jars. some of the seeds split while scoring, those i threw away bc i know the stones have some toxic weirdness that i wasn’t tryna f with. i didn’t *tightly* pack the jars but placed the fruits until the jars were full but with enough room to get the spices on there without going over the top too much. once everything was in the jar i poured boiled water that had come down in temp a bit and sealed the jars. other ingredients were: garam masala, whole black peppercorns, coriander, salt and a healthy squeeze of yellow sriracha bc i put it in literally everything. i’m serious if you’ve never tried it (never desperately searched for a yellow srirach plug in your area) you gotta do it. change your life amazing. i did a similar pickle with shishito peppers a while back with the yellow sriracha and they were amazing, so i have high hopes for these plums in their magic sauce. sorry for the book but, as always #ivebeensmokingplantstoo if you made it this far, lmk what food plant thing you’ve always wanted to try, are going to try, have made a tradition of making or have heard about recently! (enjoy a bonus photo of these random (i think) euphorbia rubra this sleeping guy on the bus had! if he’d been awake i would have asked him about them!)